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Can We Characterize Aerosol Type Using Aerosol Optical Properties?
Lauren Schmeisser1,2, Betsy Andrews2,3, John Ogren2, Patrick Sheridan2
1Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2NOAA, Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
3CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Background
โข Why do we care about aerosols? โ Major source of uncertainty in assessing climate change
โข Why do we care about aerosol type? โ Different aerosol types contribute differently to climate
forcing โ High variability in aerosol type
โข In what ways can aerosol type be determined? โ Directly: In-situ chemical composition measurements โ Indirectly: Inference from aerosol optical properties
Aerosol Optical Properties
โข Scattering ร ngstrรถm Exponent (SAE) โข Wavelength dependence of aerosol light scattering โข SAE and particle size negatively correlated
โข Absorption ร ngstrรถm Exponent (AAE)
โข Wavelength dependence of aerosol light absorption โข AAE correlated with aerosol type
โข E.g.: Black carbon has theoretical value of 1
Small SAE Large SAE
Particle Size
Previous Work
โข Cazorla et al., 2013 โข SAE and AAE values
from AERONET sites โ Used to deduce
aerosol composition โข Chemical
composition measurements from aircraft campaigns in California used to validate results
Larger aerosol particles
Smaller aerosol particles
Global Monitoring Stations
Methods
โข Monitoring stations must have optical property records โฅ 6 months
โข Plot station property medians in SAE-AAE space โข Constraints:
โ ฯabsorption > 0.5 Mm-1 โ ฯscattering > 1.0 Mm-1
โข All values SAE and AAE at 450/700nm wavelength pair
โข Measurements at PM10 (except SUM, PM2.5)
AAE-SAE Plot Space
Dust
Dust/EC Mix
Large Coated Particles /
Sea Salt
Mix
Dust
/OC
Mix
EC/OC
OC
EC
AAE-SAE Variability
Dust
Dust/EC Mix
Large Coated Particles /
Sea Salt
Mix
Dust
/OC
Mix
EC/OC
OC
EC
Back Trajectory Analysis
โข Reduce ambiguity in likely aerosol type using back trajectories and clustering
โข Methods โ 3-day back trajectories generated using HYSPLIT โ Trajectory cluster data paired with aerosol optical
properties for plots
Niamey, Niger
Back Trajectory Analysis
NIAMEY, NIGER
Dust
Dust/EC Mix
Large Coated Particles/ Sea
Salt
Mix
Dust
/OC
Mix
EC/OC
OC
EC
Cape Code, Massachusetts
Back Trajectory Analysis
CAPE COD, MASSACHUSETTS
Dust
Dust/EC Mix
Large Coated Particles/ Sea
Salt
Mix
Dust
/OC
Mix
EC/OC
OC
EC
Conclusions
โข Aerosol optical properties can be used to infer likely dominant aerosol type โ sing medians of optical properties can mask
variation in aerosol type at monitoring sites
โข Trajectory analyses can reduce ambiguity in classification of aerosol type at some stations
โข Cluster analyses (not presented here) can help further aerosol type classification
โข โฆ more to come!
Questions? Comments?
Thank you to collaborating monitoring stations for use of your data!
References โข Andrews E, Ogren J, Bonasoni P, Marinoni A, Cuevas E, Rodrรญguez S, Sun J, Jaffe D, Fischer E,
Baltensperger U. Climatology of aerosol radiative properties in the free troposphere. Atmos Res 2011;102(4):365-93.
โข Bergstrom RW, Pilewskie P, Russell P, Redemann J, Bond T, Quinn P, Sierau B. Spectral absorption properties of atmospheric aerosols. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2007;7(23):5937-43.
โข Boucher, O., D. Randall, P. Artaxo, C. Bretherton, G. Feingold, P. Forster, V.-M. Kerminen, Y. Kondo, H. Liao, U. Lohmann, P. Rasch, S.K. Satheesh, S. Sherwood, B. Stevens and X.Y. Zhang, 2013: Clouds and Aerosols. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
โข Cazorla A, Bahadur R, Suski K, Cahill J, Chand D, Schmid B, Ramanathan V, Prather K. Relating aerosol absorption due to soot, organic carbon, and dust to emission sources determined from in-situ chemical measurements. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 2013;13(2):3451-83.
โข Costabile F, Barnaba F, Angelini F, Gobbi G. Identification of key aerosol populations through their size and composition resolved spectral scattering and absorption. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2013;13(5):2455-70.
โข Dubovik O, Holben B, Eck TF, Smirnov A, Kaufman YJ, King MD, Tanrรฉ D, Slutsker I. Variability of absorption and optical properties of key aerosol types observed in worldwide locations. J Atmos Sci 2002;59(3):590-608.
โข Russell P, Bergstrom R, Shinozuka Y, Clarke A, DeCarlo P, Jimenez J, Livingston J, Redemann J, Dubovik O, Strawa A. Absorption angstrom exponent in AERONET and related data as an indicator of aerosol composition. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2010;10(3):1155-69.
Back Trajectory Analysis
ANMYEON-DO, KOREA
Dust
Dust/EC Mix
Large Coated Particles
Mix
Dust
/OC
Mix
EC/OC
OC
EC
Back Trajectory Analysis
MT. WALIGUAN, CHINA
Dust
Dust/EC Mix
Large Coated Particles
Mix
Dust
/OC
Mix
EC/OC
OC
EC
Back Trajectory Analysis
BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA
Dust
Dust/EC Mix
Large Coated Particles
Mix
Dust
/OC
Mix
EC/OC
OC
EC
Aerosol Optical Properties
โข Scattering ร ngstrรถm Exponent (SAE) โข -log(๐๐๐ ๐ ๐
๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ )/log(๐๐๐
๐๐๐ )
โข Wavelength dependence of aerosol light scattering โข SAE and particle size negatively correlated (Bergstrom et al., 2007)
โข Absorption ร ngstrรถm Exponent (AAE) โข -log(๐๐๐๐๐
๐๐๐๐๐ )/log(๐๐๐
๐๐๐ )
โข Wavelength dependence of aerosol light absorption โข AAE correlated with aerosol type (Russell et al., 2010)
โข Single Scattering Albedo (SSA) โข
๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ +๐๐๐๐
โข Fraction of extinction due to scattering โข SSA indicates amount of scattering , โwhiterโ vs. โdarkerโ aerosol
(Yang et al., 2009)
Parameter Cluster Analysis
โข Cluster analysis is used to determine groups of stations with similar dominant aerosol type, based on aerosol properties
โข Cluster using: SAE, AAE, SSA, log(ฯs)
Parameter Cluster Analysis
SAE-AAE Plot Spaces Colored by cluster number Colored by station location type
Clustered on SAE and AAE only
Parameter Cluster Analysis
SAE-AAE Plot Spaces Colored by cluster number Colored by station location type
Clustered on SAE, AAE, SSA
and log(ฯs)
Future Work
โข Seasonality โข Daily cycles โข Incorporating information on aerosol shape โข Determining aerosol mixtures
Innovative Aspects of this Research
โข Wide geographical range of monitoring stations (24 stations including urban, remote, mountaintop, desert and marine sites)
โข Long-term records used โข Trajectory analyses for all stations